Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6820, John Ellison, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Ellison, John
S. 6820
Born in Pa.
carded
CONTENTS

16.153 North Carolina
John Ellison
at Rutherford in the State of North Carolina who was a pri: in the company commanded by Captain Newell of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Virginia line for 7 1/2 months
Inscribed on the Roll of North Car.: at the rate of 25 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of July '33 and sent applicant White Oak P.O. Rutherford C.N.C.
Arrears to the 4th of March '33 - 50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " - , 12.50 $ 62.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm Miller Clerk, Book E. Vol. 6. Page 39

State of North Carolina } on the 26 th day of April 1833 Rutherford County } personally appeared in open
Court before the Judges of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions of said County now sitting John Ellison who made and swore to the annexed Declaration dated the 25 th of October 1832 who being first duly sworn according to the oath saith as follows:
That all the Military Services done as stated by him was as a private Soldier - though he cannot to a day specify the time of his service he can safely state the length of his Three terms of service to be seven months and a half and he thinks a few days over - the deponent further saith that he knows no person now living by whom he could prove his military services more fully or clearly than is done in the affidavits appended to his Declaration above referred to - The deponent further saith that he lived about a hundred miles from where he performed his six months term of service; and that his understanding is that the time his actual service was short of six months was supposed to be not longer than it would take him to travel home. - Sworn to and subscribed in open
Court the 26 th day of April 1833
Test J. P. Burchett Clk
John Ellison his mark

State of North Carolina, Court of Pleas & 46 Rutherford County 3 April Session 1833
I Theo. P. Bicknell do certify as clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Rutherford County, that on this day of April 1833 John Edmiston appeared in open Court and was duly sworn to the declaration within written & subscribed by him
Given under my hand & the seal of the Court the day and date above written. -
Theo. P. Bicknell

State of North Carolina } before me a Justice of the Rutherford County } peace and for said County came Mary Collins at her own residence who being sworn saith that in the time of the Revolutionary war about as well as she recollects the years 1779 or 1780 or about the time of Fergusons defeat she lived in Washington County Virginia that she was with a gun- -ner with John Ellison who she understands is an applicant for a pension - and that she knows from report and her own knowledge of the said Ellison being for several months absent from home during which time he was as she has always understood and believed he was in the militia service as she offered at the same house with him part of the time - the precise time he served she cannot undertake to state Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th October 1832
G. Luffin J.P.
Mary R. Collins mark
I further certify that from age and bodily infirmary that the said Mary Collins is in my opinion unable to attend personally at the court of this county which is over Twenty miles distant this 9th October 1832
G. Luffin J.P.

I G Griffin before whom the within probate was made do hereby certify that the deponent Mary Collins to so far as I am acquainted with her as well as by common report a credible person and her statements are entitled to credit certified this 30th March 1833
G Griffin J.P.
Mary Collins Deponent
State of North Carolina Rutherford County
I Thos P Burchett Clerk of Rutherford County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, do certify that Greenberry Griffin Esq who has attested the within affidavit of Mary Collins was on the day of the date thereof and yet is an Acting Justice of the Peace of said County, and that his attestation is such as is entitled to Credit. Given under my hand & the seal of said Court at office the 20th day of April 1833
Thos. P. Burchett C.B.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of North Carolina { on this 25 th day of October 1832 County of Rutherford } personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County now sitting John Ellison a Resident of White Oak in said County aged seventy Years or thereabout who being first duly sworn according to law both on his oath make the following de claration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service in March 1780  1780 but cannot state the day of the month in Washington County Virginia in a Company of Militia Infantry commanded by Capt Saml. Newell and Lieutenant John Jarneison (Does not recollect the name of the Ensign if any) and served one month in the same as a substitute in the place of a John Hankhouse after the expiration of the month he enlisted for six months, a volunteer with the above named Capt Saml. Newell - This was in the early part of the summer or late in the spring of 1780  1780 but he cannot safely state a day but thinks it was in May - in the fall following on hearing the news of Ferguson's defeat the Company was discharged and as he thinks a few days before the expiration of the six months. in the spring of 1781 he served one month in a Company commanded by Capt Coxe as a substitute for a Lewis Hitts. he cannot conscientiously state the day or even the month in which he performed this last service, he is an illiterate man, and never received any discharge and had no written or printed document to help his memory out - The whole of his service was done in and near Powell valley in Washington County Virginia near the big Spring and a part of the time in a Fort on the called Hicks or Christmans Fort and in scouting in the country for thirty or forty miles round the Fort he guarded against inroads of the Indians who were then committing depredations on the frontier. but in the time he served we never fell in with or had an

engagement with them - he never received a discharge from the service nor any pay for the six months service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present - and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
Interrogatories propounded by the Court to the Applicant Question 1st where and in what year were you born
Answer - I was born in Pennsylvania I think in Lancaster County I do not know the year
2 nd have you any record of your age and if so where is it Answer - I have no record of my age
3 rd where were you living when called into service - where have you lived since the Revolution and where do you now live
Answer - I lived when called into service in Washington County Virginia - I now live in Rutherford County and have lived here for forty eight years
4 th how were you called into service - were you drafted - did you enter a volunteer or were you a substitute and if you were for whom
Answer - This is as fully stated in my declaration as I could do it here
5 th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with with the troops where you served such Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer - no other troops were associated with the Company I belonged to during my term of service - I do not know that I can add any thing to the account I have given of my service except that some parties of Indians were at times within sight of the fort we were in, and some shots exchanged but they kept at too great a distance for execution to be done
6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service - by whom was it given and what has become of it -
Answer - I never received any discharge from the service
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character as a man

of veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Answer - I give the names of the Reverend Joel Blackwell and of John Moore Postmaster at White Oak
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Ellison Sworn
We Joel Blackwell a minister of the Baptist Church and John Moore both living on White Oak Creek in the neighborhood of John Ellison who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration do hereby certify that we believe him to be seventy years of age - and that that one of us has known him for over forty years and the other for above thirty - as his military services are said to have been done many miles from here and before we were acquainted with him we have of course no knowledge thereof - but from his general character as a man of truth and integrity and our own personal knowledge of him we are inclined to believe that he performed the services stated in his declaration to by Mr. Miller & affirmed to by Joel Blackwell  to by Mr. Miller & affirmed to by Joel Blackwell the day and year aforesaid
Sworn J. P. Bissett Atk
Joel Blackwell John Moore
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifying that it appears to them that Joel Blackwell who signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in this county and John Moore who has also signed the same is also a resident in this county is a credible person and their statement is entitled to credit
J. W. Mills Atk

On the day and year above stated personally appeared William Henderson who being first duly sworn deposes and saith that when a boy about eleven or twelve years of age he lived in Washington County Virginia in the same house with John Ellison who has made and sworn to the foregoing declaration - that in the same year of Washington's defeat he thinks in the spring he knew of said Ellison being a month or more from home - and that he understood he was at that time serving in a company of troops against the Indians - that about the same time  soon after his return home he the said Ellison again enlisted as this deponent was told and believes for several months in the same service - that and that he well remembers that he was absent as the deponent thinks and believes for or about six months and the deponent further saith that the said Ellison was again in the spring of the year following absent from home for some time and as this deponent understood in the same service and though the deponent never was at the fort where the said Ellison states he served or saw him in actual service as a soldier - yet he has never had any doubt but that the said Ellison served as stated in his declaration.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the 26th October 1832
William Henderson mark
J. P. Berrett Clk
I Theodore P. Berrett Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Recorder Sessions for the County of Buckingham & State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the application of John Ellison for a pension and that William Henderson whose affidavit is above is a credible person in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30th day of October A.D. 1832
Theo. P. Berrett Clk
17632
John Ellison Declaration & aff. reaction

No 17632
John Ellison Rutherford County North Carolina
Amount as a private 72 mo $25.
+
John Ellison White Oak Post Office Rutherford County North Carolina

BRIEF in the case of  John Ellison  of  Stathford Co  in the State of  North Carolina  (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? About 70.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     March In 1780. 1 Private Gen. Capt. North   A Volunteer 6 " "   1781. 1 " Col. Hoke  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Washington Co. N.C.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses & traditional evidence and witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Caston Examining Clerk.

Rev. War
6820 INVALID.
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File No. 6820
John Ellison Rev. War
Act: June 9 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 st , Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ellison, Robert GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7096 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 26, 1790 to Joseph Wright, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.